Indian History. Asiatic and European

Thus people like the Bengalis of the east the Mahrattas and Gonds of the Deccan and the Telugu Tamil Kanarese and other Dravidian races of the fremote south or Peninsula are all called to this day bz the corm-lion name of Hindus. [...] It ended in the slaughter pf the Kauravas the bulling of the dead the lament:ftions of widows and daughters and the installation of -Vudhislithira on the throne of the -waited kingdoms of Ilastinapur and Indra-prastha. 16. [...] The table-land of the Deccan is divided between Mahrattas Gonds but the Mahrattas were the Imtest settlers driving the Gonds and abetigines towards the unhealthy jungles of the Eastern Ghats. [...] He appeami in the Ramayana as the protector of the Brahmans against the Rak6hasas and the destroyer of Ravana the king of Lanka or Ceylon. [...] Henceforth the united kingdoms of Telingana and Kanara were merged in the empire of Vijavulgar and the Maharajas of Vijayanagar were lords paramount over all the countries to the -south of the river Kistna..